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Blacks have striking genetic diversity, study finds
I thought your response to the race = family argument was particularly interesting considering the latest study to come out on the striking genetic diversity of Africans. African, American, and European researchers worked together for over 10-years to put together the largest-ever study of African genetic data—more than four million genotypes. ...
Posted to Human Nature by dakyle on May 4, 2009
What is intelligence
The problem with all the arguments about IQ and race is that we can't really measure IQ and we don't really know what it is. Until we can, arguments are meaningless. I am certainly more knowledgeable than the President, but am I smarter? Could I have made it to the Presidency with his advantages? I don't know, but I doubt I have his ...
Posted to The Dilettante by chuck on December 4, 2007
Re: Blacks are genetically superior in...
Your sports analogy completely blows up when you look at a sport that controls for both heredity and environment -- soccer. In that sport, the world's top athletes come from a wide variety of ethnic, socio-economic and geographic backgrounds. The world's current best player, Kaka, is an upper-middle class white Brazilian with obvious European ...
Posted to The Dilettante by jfurf on December 4, 2007
Race does not exist
Metcalfe's article is very good so far as it goes, but unfortunately it doesn't go far enough. The key point is that 'race', in the sense used by Saletan, is nonsense. The genetics and history are fairly simple. Black and white Americans are the product of several hundred years of population mixing. The way it goes is that some of the genetic ...
Posted to The Dilettante by anarch on December 4, 2007
Re: The need for detail
He might have been a better writer to have replaced ''those Nigerian babies'' with ''these babies'' because after all 5% of the babies of European descent lack the gene(s) too. Thanks for reminding us of the context of Saletan’s quote. Of course there is a lot more to it than that. Firstly: It is not 5% of all babies of European descent ...
Posted to Human Nature by brerlou on November 30, 2007
Re: Neither Race or IQ Scientifically Valid
BJ&TheBear: In walks the science: In one of the most extensive of these studies to date, considering 1,056 individuals from 52 human populations, with each individual genotyped for 377 autosomal microsatellite markers, we found that individuals could be partitioned into six main genetic clusters, five of which corresponded to Africa, ...
Posted to Human Nature by gzuckier on November 29, 2007
Neither Race or IQ Scientifically Valid
Who said IQ was a true measure of intelligence anyway? It only measures a certain kind of mental ability. There is growing evidence that diet and environment can play a huge role in brain development. Also, differences in lifestyle can cause certain genetic traits to be expressed. Someone with poor nutrition, neglected and abused by parents, poor ...
Posted to Human Nature by curiousgemini on November 28, 2007
Rational Racism
Perhaps Saletan is here founding a new movement (at least a new movement to give an old movement a respectable public face): Rational Racism. I suspect that what resonates as most existentially aggravating about thinking such as Saletan displays here, to those of us it rubs wrong, lies below the threshold of any reified logic: we intuit a ...
Posted to Human Nature by mcdonald on November 26, 2007
Race and IQ
On the topic of race, and intelligence, and the difference between Asians and Whites, the differences are more complex than indicated in the article. The article indicated Asians consistently scored higher than whites on IQ tests. It's more complicated than that. Yes, Asians score slightly higher than whites, on average, but it depends on which ...
Posted to Human Nature by Tim Bitts on November 22, 2007
Show me the DNA
''The lowest black IQ averages in the U.S. show up in the South, where the rate of genetic blending is lowest'', as evidence of a genetic link. If there were NO actual genetic effect of race on IQ, and ALL the perceived effect was due to bias in development, wouldn't you still see exactly the same effect?
Posted to Human Nature by gzuckier on November 19, 2007

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